Analyzing This Coincidence

Thursday evening I stopped in at Fred Meyer and bought a new DVD of the movie Alien. I have never seen this movie but as I cued it up later that night and began watching the first few moments I thought of a girl named Lisa Silva that I went to school with more than twenty years ago. You see, Lisa was my biology partner and she insisted on an almost daily basis that I needed to watch this movie and I always said I would.

I have to say a couple things about her. She was gorgeous. One of her parents is Peruvian wherefore she has this incredibly flawless skin. I'm not much for physical descriptions... I'll just say everything about her was attractive and what really impressed me the most was how sweet she was to me especially when most of the popular kids were either picking on me or what's worse... ignoring me.

At one time it seemed my mother was going to be working with hers at the hospital sharing the same campus as our Madison Academy and Lisa asseverated to me how much fun we would have getting to know each other while we waited for our parents to get off work. Which was kind of a convenient concept for me because in my imagination she was destined to fall in love with me. For some reason I couldn't imagine the slightest impediment to my dream of the hottest girl in our school getting married to and having children with the biggest goofiest geek.

She had an irresistibly zany side to her as well. While I was trying to keep my breakfast down during our dissection of a frog, she literally proclaimed with eyes wide open, "I want to see its brains!"

Every time I've thought about finally watching Alien over these past two decades, I remember Lisa almost apologetically because of the ridiculous dimensions to which my proclivity for procrastinating has exponentially perpetuated. Heh heh... that was fun to say.

Anyway... I started the movie Thursday night and the next morning I'm chatting online with Ivy Dawn, my very best friend from high school, and I explain how I'm complying at last with Lisa's instructions, and Ivy says that it's Lisa's birthday. At first I think she's just joking and I say, "Ivy, how could you possibly know that?" But she's not joking. Apparently both of them have just recently subscribed to Facebook along with nearly a dozen of our other classmates and Ivy received an automatic notification that it was Lisa's birthday. So I think it's a significant coincidence that I was having this conversation about her on her birthday fully 21 years after she made me promise I would watch this film which, by the way, has turned out to be every bit as fantastic as she assured me it would be.